Open House tomorrow night

Hello,

We played a game called "200" in math class today. It involved dice and adding. The kids liked it and it gave me a chance to peruse their addition skills in a non-testing way.  Some will need to stay with some manipulatives to fully understand regrouping. Most are ready to roll on.

The homework tonight is a little more number identification, but we should be moving out of chapter one by next week.

I think a few students were motivated to get more of their Little Miss or Mr. stories completed when faced with the question of, "Wouldn't it be nice to have a finished writing piece on your desk for open house tomorrow night?" I now have some story covers to laminate. We haven't done any big projects with big trophy pieces to show for it, so you may be disappointed in that regard. Our class will look like it usually does. Your child should be able to show you around and talk about what we do.  I'm looking forward to meeting all of you, so I hope you can find the time.

Our class had our second library class of the year today. We are lucky to have library mid-week. With our every other week schedule for library, the Monday and Friday library goers tend to lose many more opportunities than us midweekers.

I read Me On the Map by Joan Sweeney this afternoon. It is an easy picture book about a girl in her room drawing a map of her room, then a map of her house, then of her street, her town, her state, her country, and finally, her world. We'll do a little activity tomorrow where everyone will place themselves in a series of concentric circles representing many of the geographical areas they live in.

Our crystals are growing nicely. Not as much excitement about them today, but I'm sure that will change when it is time to give them away.

Have a great night.

Mr. Shea